Paleolithic population growth pulses evidenced by small animal exploitation |
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| Authors: | MC Stiner ND Munro TA Surovell E Tchernov O Bar-Yosef |
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| Institution: | M. C. Stiner, N. D. Munro, T. A. Surovell, Department of Anthropology, Building 30, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E. Tchernov, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. |
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| Abstract: | Variations in small game hunting along the northern and eastern rims of the Mediterranean Sea and results from predator-prey simulation modeling indicate that human population densities increased abruptly during the late Middle Paleolithic and again during the Upper and Epi-Paleolithic periods. The demographic pulses are evidenced by increasing reliance on agile, fast-reproducing partridges, hares, and rabbits at the expense of slow-reproducing but easily caught tortoises and marine shellfish and, concurrently, climate-independent size diminution in tortoises and shellfish. The results indicate that human populations of the early Middle Paleolithic were exceptionally small and highly dispersed. |
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